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Nickoten

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日本語OK. 🇹🇹 Trini freelance writer and editor. Cohost of Player vs Plot podcast at playervsplot.com. TTRPGs: Old School Stylish, Nielsenauts. Pathika City Book soon! Blog at Pathikablog.com, won a Gold Bloggie! Doubles always with heavy pepper

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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 10h
Paige was the best!
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
If you’re interested in video game scenario writing/quest design, Phantasy Star 1 is a great text to study. It uses a valuable technique for blending thematic genres in games: use elements of one genre to solve problems of the other. Solve a sci fi problem using magic and vice versa. 🧵
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My daughter will love this. She loves sumo wrestling for some reason
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The Weekly Scroll @theweeklyscroll.com · 09/10/2026
The ashcan edition of my new game is out. HONBASHO is a 1v1 skirmish game that simulates modern sumo wrestling. I made it to teach sumo with a game, more than make a sumo game. My hope is that after someone plays this game, they will have a basic understanding of sumo and can watch and enjoy it.
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HONBASHO: A Grand Sumo Skirmish Game by Midnight Oil Publishing House
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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Searchable scans of public domain art! insideoutlibrary.com
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Inside Out Library
Orbital diagrams, suits of armour, pulp sci-fi covers and wood type, from the pages of public-domain books. Free to use for anything.
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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Old-school Essentials has some real sickos.jpg rules for constructing a castle. Here is a simplified method: Print out this page. Each block costs 1,000 gp for basic construction, or 1,500 gp for a furnished section. Arrange to taste.
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Microblog: Papercraft - Hvem kan bygge den smukkeste Borg?
Here is a copy of an activity from a 1919 issue of the Danish magazine Familie Journal . Click to download the full-sized image Children wer...
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Everyone except Luke Gearing
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
White people out here trying to tell me that fasting and staying celibate won’t make me able to levitate. lol, lmao
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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A once in a lifetime cosmic event will take place today: for exactly 2 minutes, the names Bilbao (Portugal) and Bilbo (the Hobbit, Lotr) will switch places everywhere. Take this into account, keep your guard up.
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Training us for the inevitable case of the missing Luke
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hype
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just realized I did not provide the context that this character actually desires to be a novelist
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1989 btw
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This scene from Okazaki’s Pink is uncomfortably relevant
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think about this post all the time. you might too
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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
All my homies hate all my homies
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The pro strat is to skip the whole truck puzzle entirely, all you need is the shotgun and ammo from that house
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sometimes I remember how my IP professor would occasionally say things in a funny voice or cadence and suddenly 23-25yo grown adults would pay attention and laugh after zoning out for 30 minutes on their laptop, and how this must have eroded her soul in ways I’m only beginning to understand
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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 19/09/2026
RESIDENT EVIL 2 R.P.D. 🗺️ 1F/2F 1998 vs. 2019 comparison. (full resolutions in my galleries as usual.)
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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
…it begins. #gaming #ttrpg www.kickstarter.com/projects/gre...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON'S SPEEDWAY HELL: Dangerous Playtest Edition
It's a tabletop RPG where sinners race through Hell to win brief moments of peace. It's handled with tremendous silliness.
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Brian Clark (bclarkomp) @onemillionpower.com · 16/09/2026
Come learn about Team Brazil AND Faith No More?!
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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com · 16/09/2026
king's field 4 marches on... simple spaces, vast in number. clearly the inspiration for the Backrooms films
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Holy shit. I cannot imagine how hard this must be. The complete all-in-one fan map I remember referencing when I first played this game looked like the workings of a mad man. Very excited for this one!
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The em dashes thing really hurt. I actually avoid using them as much now. Not that my abuse of them was ever *good*, but at least it wasn't mistaken for being a robot!
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's kinda wild how widespread the word "meccha" has become. Is it even considered kansaiben now
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Between this and the nothingburger post, we are not beating the allegations
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I do something like this too! Love notecards as character sheets
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Ross Payton @rosspayton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Someone made a searchable archive of public domain footage so you can get cool video clips without having to pay Getty www.destockd.com - learn more in this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dzq...
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Destockd
A free, searchable archive of public domain footage from U.S. government films. Search by describing what you see — CLIP-powered visual search, not keywords.
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Evey 💀 Swamp Hag Trainee 🐸|🏳️‍⚧️ @violentmedia.itch.io · 06/09/2026
you can get the 6 Raccoons in a Weird Wizard's Coat background here, btw: violentmedia.itch.io/lovely-littl...
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Lovely Little Weirdos by Evey Lockhart
3 cute little freak backgrounds for Troika
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Sean McCoy @sean.tuesdayknightgames.com · 01/09/2026
Applications for the Mothership #Jump-9 Writers Grant are now open. Deadline is September 30. www.tuesdayknightgames.com/pages/mother...
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I went in a different direction with this and made it so some things are just small and valuable, making them really desirable. The problem is this does create a situation where players try to calculate optimal value per encumbrance, which is realistic in its own way, but slower
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I didn't really think about how I needed to define how many small things to a slot until mid session. That was embarrassing. I do love giving my players two slot items though.
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I really didn't like that the trailer said "starring Toshiro Mifune." They also made it seem like Tupac was an actor in that new game from the Yakuza people.
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Brandon O’Brien, but wearing a wolf mask @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s the day after, and the sound of erupting cheers for Elis Montgomery winning Best Poem still fills me with joy. May this be the energy next year. May this be the energy after 2029. May speculative poetry remain a beacon star in the constellation of our genre, forever and always.
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You can tell the new Onimusha wasn’t made by white people cause Musashi will just walk up and slit a mf’s throat without internally questioning his honor.
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think prep notebooks (esp with notes on what helped and didn’t afterward) would be a really interesting thing to see from others. Like, no layout or art or anything, just as raw as it can be. That is likely to be more helpful than an adventure in some cases.
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I knew you were a greyhawk truther (complimentary)
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
…where are the creature collector team sports games? This is so obvious now after reading your post that I’m baffled
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I say this as someone who loves ER to be clear.
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really wanted way more Fort Haights and way fewer arena bosses.
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is one of my biggest critiques of Elden Ring. Fort Haight is a tantalizing example of what could be — a “boss” at the top of an open air fort where the different floors interact, and interesting encounters dotting the multiple, overlapping paths to it. And the boss can fight alongside the mobs!
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Being a writer is the best. I can just get uglier and more disgusting with each passing year and it doesn’t even matter
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Luna P. @satelitesnaturales.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The nice gig that's been giving me life for the last few months is about to end, which means that (once I'm done with all the freelance stuff) I gotta start looking for another biggish contract 🦦🦦
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If it helps, reading Night Tripper made me feel enthusiastic about RPGs
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Or in the alternative, those photo-of-a-tv screenshots you’d see for the earliest images of a game in a magazine
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It’s got this 90s cgi digitized sprite look to it but in full 3D. Love this look!
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So apparently Blood of the Dawnwalker is *not* an expansion for Final Fantasy 14.
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Nickoten @nickoten.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s wild how even just reading the news has the intrusive ad level of a roms website from the early 2000s.
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barenuckelavee.bsky.social @barenuckelavee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I have a blog now and wrote about playing a bastardized version of OD&D in prison and how the DIY spirit of the OSR is most alive when you don't buy anything at all barenuckelavee.bearblog.dev/no-one-can-t...
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NO ONE CAN TAKE YOUR GAME FROM YOU
There is a sickness in the modern tabletop hobby, a kind of creeping, insidious consumerism that tries to convince you that you need things to play. We get c...
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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 20/08/2026
1000xRESIST is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch 2. After all the compromises made on Switch 1, this feels like a full circle moment. PC quality, high resolutions, and haptics have come to the portable experience.
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